Posts Tagged Faculty
Faculty Attitudes Toward Sakai Course Management System: An Educational Perspective
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In recent years, many colleges and universities have begun to seriously consider open source course management systems (CMS) as a way to minimize financial investment and gain control over the software applications they use. As academic institutions make this transition, it is crucial to recognize faculty¿s perspectives and expectations as key factors in the future success of distance education. For that reason, this book presents a study of faculty persp… More >>
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Keeping Pace With Technology: Educational Technology That Transforms : The Challenge and Promise for Higher Education Faculty
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Faculty in Higher education face a multitude of demands and challenges in their work. Not least among these is the need to use technology in ways that will be meaningful and useful. This book has been conceived of and written to encourage faculty and those responsible for faculty development to capture a vision of the great promise technology has for educators and a means of tapping into some of these possibilities. It book focuses on the potential of educational te… More >>
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Research in Education: A Student and Faculty Guide to Writing a Research Study
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This Research in Education edition includes:· A user-friendly format that models the American Psychological Association (2001) formatting for research study; · Follows the pattern of chapters required in a research study including formatting, pagination, levels of headings, and suggestions for headings; · Suggestions on how to choose a topic, find out and report what is known, and establish the need for the study;· A guide for evaluating research writing as arti… More >>
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Distance Learning – Factors You Must Consider Before Enrolling
There is need for you to make sure that you have a place devoid of noise and distraction when you join a distance learning program. Since you won’t have the chance to study in study halls or the library, you must choose a place that will help you learn within the time limit you’ve set for yourself. You can find a seat at your local library or coffee shop or some other place where you know you won’t be easily distracted from your learning.
It is not advisable for you to merely join a distance learning program on impulse. There are so many things you must consider. These include the quality of the study material, qualifications and experience of the faculty, student support system, duration of the course, opportunities available after completion of the program, etc.
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Non-boundary Governance of Entrepreneurship Education within Higher Education
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The focus of entrepreneurship and innovation education and research at institutions of higher education ipso facto implies a wish to enhance the quality of graduate and post-graduate business venturing prospects as well as business know-how in the normally pre-entrepreneurial stage. This should happen within a sense-making framework that integrates the research and education agenda for graduate entrepreneurship. Further, an entrepreneurship and innovation education and research approach should be followed that guide the content of the competitive landscape in which the prospective entrepreneur will function and not lag behind and thereby looses its relevance.
Of particular importance to entrepreneurial education lies the ability of institutions of higher education to shift and circulate information and technologies across faculties despite different academic disciplines, professional codes, and academic language that act as academic venture boundaries. These boundaries frustrate the need to integrate entrepreneurship education throughout a higher education institution, thus inhibiting the smooth functioning of entrepreneurial education. Thus, a need exists to overcome these barriers by amalgamating the various faculties socially across faculties whereby entrepreneurial educators could play “bridging roles” by acting as “boundary spanners” between faculties and forming close cohesive networks through the whole institution. This will enable educators in entrepreneurial higher education to link otherwise unconnected faculties to facilitate the development of unique knowledge and access to special knowledge and opportunities. This create an advantage over the traditional structural design where educators were only part of a specific faculty cohesive group.
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